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Dear XiPaint User!
Thank you for using this product. XiPaint 4.0 gives you many
new features - and we still develop this product. For the reason
to have to the right tool also the right surroundings, I thought,
the best way is to make a CD which have all things you need to
paint.
It is not the program alone, that satisfies - it's also the handling,
the support the tools and the demonstration. Therefore, this CD
gives you many import and export-modules, pictures, materials and
and and.
For a nice price it was necessary to have the manual on CD.
Manual
======
For this reason, I made AmigaGuide-Manuals, ASCII, and printable
files to put out to your printer (in Deskjet, Laserjet and
Postscript-Format). Only copy the desired files to your printer
or click on the icon.
The manual is made for version 3.0 - but its still the actual
one. The new features are explained seperately.
If you want to have a printed manual, you can get it at MacroSystem
or NoahJi's.
If you have troubles with the Laserjet-manual (the pages are printed
only a half), so please stop printing and print before the manual
a graphical page with an other programm (PC, or Amiga). I couldn't
reproduce this - so I hope, this will help ...
The nice multipic.library is copyright by MacroSystem (Thanks) and
I need it for loading and saving. Its not freeware - but every
XiPaint user may use it. From Mr. Hoffmann I got a demo of his
fast external loaders. If you want to work with the full-version,
please register you! More details are in the Shareware-folder.
An other nice thing is Graffity. It's a Workbench emulation for
the Omnibus, Merlin, Domino, Graffity and Picasso. So XiPaint is
also available for this graphic-adapters.
If you want to use the WACOM-tablett, you need the driver from
Roland Schwingel, which is also in the Shareware-directory.
XiPaint-Modul 4.2
=================
The universal loader module for XiPaint is Shareware
(registration 18US$ for just the module or only 8US$
add-on price if ordered together with CyberShow Professional,
my SlideShow program for OS3.x incl. CyberGraphX support; see
shareware drawer for demo versions; demos work in greyscale only).
Special functions of the module:
* downscaled loading (useful if you have lack of memorty) in 50% or 25% size
* TrueColor animation creation for CyberGraphX (or EGS)
Loading formats of the module:
1) IFF-ILBM (all standard formats 1 to 8Bit, EHB, HAM6, HAM8, 24Bit)
2) PhotoCD (Base format 768x512 or 512x768 (portrait); linear 24Bit RGB)
3) JPeg (color and greyscale)
4) PPM/PGM/PBM (P1&P4 b&w, P5 grey, P6 color)
5) QRT (also known as dump format by PD raytracers as POV-Ray)
6) Targa (RLE compr.&uncompr. 1/8/15/16/24/32Bit; incl. interleaved)
7) PCX (compr.&uncompr. EGA1-4Bit, VGA 8Bit grey/Colormap and 24Bit)
8) BMP (uncompr. 24Bit RGB,1Bit,4Bit or 8Bit Colormap; RLE compressed 8Bit,1Bit)
9) TIF (packbit-compr.&uncompr. 24Bit,1-8Bit grey/Color Motorola&Intel formats)
10) EGS7.x window icons
11) DEEP (compr.&uncompr. IFF-DEEP 24Bit and 32Bit formats)
12) YUV (color 1:1:1, 2:1:1, 4:1:1 and greyscale)
13) VLAB raw (color 1:1:1, 2:1:1, 4:1:1 and greyscale)
14) RGB (IFF-RGB: RGB8 and RGBN compressed; RGB5 uncompressed)
15) HHsYUVSq sequence format (sequential or random access)
16) IFF-PBM (DPII) format
17) ACBM (IFF-ACBM: 1 to 8Bit, EHB, HAM6, HAM8)
18) FBM (8Bit grey/Colormap and 24Bit)
19) Sun raster (uncompressed formats for 1Bit, 8Bit grey/ColorMap and 24Bit)
20) MacPaint (b&w compressed 1Bit format; datafork only)
21) HHsXRL formats (1-8Bit ColorMap incl. HAM6/8, 8Bit grey, 24Bit RGB compressed)
22) binary-EPS bitmaps (RGB and CMYK; this function is experimental)
23) TBCPlus frames&fields
Address: Helmut Hoffmann
Rubensstrasse 4
D-41063 Moenchengladbach
Germany
Outputs
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the following drivers for Output are included:
* Amiga 256 Farben
* Amiga HAM6 und HAM8
* Cybergfx
* EGS
* Framemaster 2
* Graffity
* Merlin (with ProDev Expansion, untested)
* Picasso
* VD2001
* Retina
A good driver for the Merlin is availble at ProDev.
Problems
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If you have problems with starting XiPaint, so please use the little
programm xpinit on the CD. Start it from the xipaint-drawer, where
the main-programm is found. It tells you something about your
libraries and versions and where there are.
If you have no idea, why XiPaint can't find libraries, please copy
all xipaint/libs/#? - libraries to libs:
If you have a VLAB and no VLAB-Menu will open, so please start xipaint
from a shell with the option 7. This bug will be fixed in the next version.
Have you problems with loading your pictures? Maybe your loading-module
is Internal-DEEP. Change this in the System-Folder under loader to the
multipic-module (also for Saver).
The following bug is fixed in this version of XiPaint:
* Picture to Brush has the same sizes
The following bug is known:
* Raytracer-progressbar is to slow
Thanks
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Thanx to my beta-testers:
Tobias Abt
Helmut Hoffmann
Stevan Rankic
Hartwig Tauber
Have fun
Thomas Dorn
Herbert Beilschmidt
Vienna, March 1996
Adresses:
NoahJi's Inc.
3591 Nyland Way
Lafayette, CO 80026
USA
Fax: ++1 303 4991979
NoahJi's:
3591 Nyland Way
Lafayette, Co 80026
(303) 499-1975 voice
(303) 499-1979 Fax
(303) 969-8967 BBS
draco.com!eric
MacroSystem
Borgäcker 2-6
D-58454 Witten
GERMANY
Phone: ++49-2302-949490
FAX: ++49-2302-949499
ProDev
Marcel Jantz
Eichendorfstr. 9
Germany
D-53859 Nierkassel
Phone: ++49-6556-7536
Thomas Dorn
A-1210 Vienna
Kerpengasse 69
Fido: 2:310/98.0
Internt: tdorn@xipaint.co.at
Mailbox, Fax: ++43-1-2714549
Magazines!
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If you start XiPaint from a shell with the option 7 (xipaint 7),
you are able to make Screenshots in the actual directory. These
are made in DEEP-format, which you can transform with xipaint.
Screenshots are possible with the PrtSc-Key.
Translators!
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You want to change the help-texts? Start XiPaint in a Shell with the
option 7 and press the Help-Key. The filename of the text-file is
printed out to the shell.
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Mr. Stefan Ossowski for making this CD!
Stefan Ossowskis Schatztruhe
Veronikastr. 33
D-45131 Essen
Germany